A hot race at the peak of the COTA-hunters. Uwe DL2ND and Arthur SP8LEP meanwhile both reached the COTA-1000 level. Congrats to both successful hunter and special thanks to all activators made this high mark possible at all.

Juli-edition of the AGCW-DL-info, shows an article about WCA and gives some background-information about castle-day. More and more castle-activities are done in CW which is also a result from the steady growing numbers of QRP-equipment which makes activities from WCA- or WWFF-destinations an attractive part of the hobby. Article in german in july-release of AGCW-DL-info

From june 24 till 25 the amateur-radio-club Heidenreichstein held the second international COTA- and WWFF-meeting in austria. Hams from HB9, I, DL and OE activated the nature-park OEFF-0015 with the special-call OE3WWFF and one day later the castle Heidenreichstein OE-00089 under OE3COTA.

Propagations were not so well on may01 at castle-day however there was a big number of participants. Up today we received 180 logs. So many thanks to all who help to organize the event, special thanks of course to the castle-activators and castle-hunters.
All received logs will be published in the COTA and the WCA-database.
All stations from which we received the logs are listed here.
Cuagn on World Castle Weekend at 17./18.june 2017
COTA-Team-Germany

Also this year the German Castle Day will be at may 01.2017.
All hams are invited to take part and bring german castles in the air.
Also for hunters it´s a good possibility to work a lot of german castles and increase your score for several awards.
We will inform you here also with the growing list of announced activities.Currently announced activities for the castle-day

The first quarter of 2017 was again a record with COTA-activities. Altogether 300 logs reached us until end of march. Database comes closer to 650000 entries. Especially the yearly COTA-award has more and more friends. We could issue the first awards for 30 and for 40 activated german castles in 2017 to Peter DJ2OS and the hunter-awards 100 and 150 in 2017 went to Artur SP8LEP. The 1500. standard-COTA-award in the class 375 was reached by Peter DL8NCA. Many thanks to all activators and collectors.